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With the cold winter days here it is always nice to start the morning off with a warm, healthy and hearty breakfast and it is even better if that breakfast is fully cooked and waiting for you when you get up! If you are a fan of oatmeal and if you have a slow cooker this is it is super easy to do where all you need to do is place all of the ingredients for your oatmeal into the slow cooker before going to bed at night. A bowl of oatmeal certainly does not need to be boring and since it is easy to add flavours you can keep things interesting and have a different bowl of oatmeal for breakfast every morning. I have done a lot of experimenting with different flavours of oatmeal and one of my favourites has to be this oatmeal themed after apple pie; and who doesn't want a warm bowl of apple pie for breakfast? At its base, this apple pie oatmeal consists of the steel cut oats, apples, brown sugar and cinnamon and from there you can add what you like. I enjoy the addition of raisins and walnuts and of course a spoonful of caramel sauce works perfectly to sweeten things up a bit!
Tip: Place everything in your slow cooker before you go to bed at night and set it to cook for 4 hours. After it is done cooking, it will go into keep warm mode and keep your oatmeal perfectly cooked until you wake up in the morning.

Tip: If your slow cooker cannot be programmed you can place the ingredients in a bowl that will fit in your slow cooker and fill your slow cooker with water until it goes half way up the bowl. This way you can cook it all night without the oatmeal burning on the sides.

Slow Cooker Apple Pie Steel Cut Oatmeal

All of the flavours of apple pie in an over night slow cooker steal cut oatmeal for breakfast!

ingredients

1 cup steel cut oats

2 cups water or apple juice or apple cider

2 cups milk (or 2 more cups water)

2 apples, peeled, cored and cut into bite sized pieces

1/4 cup brown sugar

1/2 teaspoon cinnamon

1 dash nutmeg, grated

1/4 cup raisins (optional)

1/4 cup walnuts, chopped (optional)

directions

Place the steel cut oats, water, milk, apple, brown sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg and raisins in a slow cooker and set it to cook on low for 4 hours.

Mix the oatmeal up, optionally adding milk to bring it to the desired consistency and sweetener to bring it to the desired sweetness and serve topped with any desired toppings.

Option: Top with caramel sauce for a special treat!Note: This works best overnight if you have a slow cooker that either has a timer for a delayed start or one that has a timer to switch from low to keep warm mode after the 4 hours. If you do not have these features on your slow cooker you can place the ingredients in a bowl that will fit in the slow cooker and place couple of inches of water around it so that it sits in a water bath in the slow cooker and then cook on low overnight.

Oh my good gosh - I LOVE slow cooker steel cut oats. It makes life so much easier to just wake up in the morning and breakfast is already done :) it's so filling too! I adore the apple pie flavor in this. Just divine and so comforting :)

I wasn't a fan of oatmeal when I was a kid. I didn't like the consistency, but I think that was because of the grain my mom used to buy. I have been wanting to try oatmeal again, but with a better grain like steel cut. Do you have a favorite brand that you recommend?

Hi there! I love your recipes...just wanted to let you know, not all slow cookers are programmable. On some of the older models you cannot set the time to automatically go to "keep warm". You have to switch it yourself after the 4hours have elapsed, I guess that's why some of the readers were confused.

I have 3 crock pots (3 sizes), and none of them have the ability to program modes unfortunately. However, like another commenter mentioned, you could easily use a lamp timer to turn it on around 3am (although one of them for sure automatically goes to "keep warm" when turned on, which wouldn't work). I'd like to try this :) Thanks for posting it!

For those of us with older crocks ... Kevin noted in this recipe that you can place the ingredients inside a bowl in the pot, and fill water into the pot, around the bowl, half-way up. This creates a simmering water bath, just like we use when baking custards in the oven. I find my old crock cooks efficiently on low. So I'll try this on low without the water bath and see what proves by sunrise! Anonymous suggests this can work. I never sleep more than 6 hours at a time anyway ...

Agreed with Anonymous. Cooking on low in an older crock. I don't sleep longer than 6hrs.at a time anyway. Kevin's suggested an efficient water-bath system in his recipe to circumvent scorching in crocks without timing devices.

This recipe sounds great, my two year old (as well as my wife & myself0 will probably love this. I do have a question though, I have no steel cut oats, just rolled oats, wouldn't the ratio of oats to liquid be different, if so any ideas on the difference?

poosh: This will give you 4 servings at 1 cup per serving. Once you add the milk at the end to get the oatmeal to the right consistency there will be a lot more than there was when you open up the slow cooker in the morning.

Well, I made this recipe with the rolled oats (this is anonymous that asked about rolled oats). I used two cups of rolled oats instead of 1 cup steel cut, leaving all the other ingredients in the same amounts. I did add 1/2 cup more brown sugar in the morning, and It turned out fantastic! This will be made here many more times. Thanks for the recipe!

I tried the recipe for myself on Saturday morning: first time ever to use steel-cut oat and first time not-instant and in the crock pot! Love it so much that I did it again on Sunday morning for guests over for brunch! Thanks Kevin! Also, I used Almond milk and it was delicious. Next time I will add more cinnamon.

Anonymous: I have a 5 quart crock pot for cooking a decent sized pork roast but for this oatmeal smaller ones will work just fine. If you want to use the water bath method of cooking a larger one would be better.

Just made this this morning. I threw in a handful of dried cranberries & some walnuts. it is GOOD! it took 5 1/2 hrs for mine to be done. This is definitely going to be a regular at the breakfast table. Thanks for sharing.

I just now read the posts about setting timers and putting a crock in side the slow cooker with water. I made this recipe yesterday and then portioned out the servings when it was done. I re-heated one portion for 2 minutes in the microwave (High or 100% power), stirred in a bit of milk and topped it with toasted walnuts! Super delicious and reheats very well. I am excited to try other variations on this technique.

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